boobyhead

Updated: June 18, 2025

In one pocket was a pipe, a rusted jackknife and what had once been a piece of tobacco. In the other pocket were sixteen large, old, red copper cents, one of which was a "boobyhead" cent. We never discovered to whom that treasure-trove belonged. It could hardly have been Adwanko's, for one of the copper cents bore the date of 1830.

C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens - A Busy Year at the Old Squire's